Do you guys think that NHL GM's come in this section and look at proposals , possibly giving the GM an idea or a start for a possible real-life trade? I know if my trade got done in real life , I'd feel like a genius.

I don't see why they wouldn't want to know what the fans want and maybe see an outside the box idea they hadn't really thought of. That's just being smart. Sitting there and laughing at us and only that, let's see your ring from last year is what I would say to that.

Do you guys think that NHL GM's come in this section and look at proposals , possibly giving the GM an idea or a start for a possible real-life trade? I know if my trade got done in real life , I'd feel like a genius.

I don't see why they wouldn't want to know what the fans want and maybe see an outside the box idea they hadn't really thought of. That's just being smart. Sitting there and laughing at us and only that, let's see your ring from last year is what I would say to that.

Hockey, at most levels, is a "good old boy" small community. Most probably couldnt tell you how to access HF...

I don't think that GMs actually come on HF boards but I do think they are some what influenced by it. By that I mean that a lot of media people do come on here and even have accounts on HF (ie. Bob Stauffer). So if the media sees something that they deem interesting or even doable than they will more than likely talk about it on their radio show/write it in the paper/talk about it on a panel/etc.

So this is how the GMs would hear about it, in their local paper or on TV or radio. Than I could see the GMs making a call if they like the idea of it.

C'mon, seriously? 99.9999% of the proposals that end up on here are ludicrous. And only a handful of the remaining 0.0001% end up happening. It's a simple numbers game that we collectively get one right every once and a while, no different than Eklund.

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If I were an NHL GM, sitting around having some brews with other NHL GM's, I'd totally come to HF to look at proposals and laugh at all the dummies on the internet. But seriously, if any GM looks here for trade advice, I hope like hell they are fired, for the sake of their teams and fanbases.

The best part of this proposal (Vrbata for Hale + Fedoruk) was that it was made entirely tongue-in-cheek with naked intent to screw over the lightning and not a modicum of expectation that it would ever turn out.

That being said , do you think it's a possibility that GM's make an account and propose a trade to see the reaction of the fan base ?

I think somebody makes an account at their request and gives them the skinny on a semi-regular basis, which they may check in on once in a while, mostly out of curiosity than perceived value.

As to the reaction of the fan base, they don't give a flying or a stationary fig, and either make decisions to be yes man to an idiot owner, or to try and make themselves look good. There are exceptions, but this seems to be more often than not the case.